The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, L.
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar
melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

A bowling pin needs only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the that the
astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an
unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was
the side you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the guy on the
starboard side.

The Japanese word "Arigato" meaning thank you is derived from the Portugese
word "Obrigado". Portugal once had a thriving trade with Japan.

The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all
other beers. No one knows why.

Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside
Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen.

A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.

Every male over the age of 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to
state constitution.

The word "karate" means "empty hand."

Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the
voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.

A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a
cathedral.

49.6% of US residents live in Eastern time zone, 29.3% live in the Central time zone,
5.3% live in the Mountain time zone, 15.0% live in the Pacific time zone and .8% live in
any other time zone.

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as
the U.S. flag.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and
sinking to the bottom.

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was
"Rock the Casbah" by the Clash.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a
pickup truck over a mile.

If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were about
1,800 of them in China.

The average sixty minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it, nearly two
football fields long.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so
much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have
graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof. And the
Chinese words for crisis and opportunity are the same.

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

Lizzie Borden was acquitted.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of
"Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."